HFT Researcher (ML)

Location: Amsterdam, Montreal, or Dubai

Company

hirify.global develops systematic trading research and production systems focused on high-frequency trading.

What you will do

• Formalize short-horizon trading research through hypothesis spaces, validation logic, and end-to-end evaluation lifecycles.
• Design and build autonomous agents that generate, test, and optimize trading strategies.
• Convert market microstructure expertise into executable features, signals, and constraints.
• Develop backtesting and simulation frameworks for large-scale experimentation under realistic execution conditions.
• Improve research throughput, exploration–exploitation balance, and statistical robustness.
• Partner with engineering to integrate agent-based systems into production trading pipelines.

Requirements

• Expertise in short-horizon systematic or high-frequency trading research.
• Strong understanding of market microstructure, quantitative modeling, and trading signals.
• Experience designing research methodologies, validation processes, and statistical evaluations.
• Ability to build or adapt backtesting and simulation frameworks.
• Experience applying machine learning or autonomous-agent approaches to real-world research systems.
• Availability to work from Amsterdam, Montreal, or Dubai.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on frontier real-world machine learning applications in systematic trading.
• Freedom to define research problems, test ideas, and move successful approaches into live systems.
• Close collaboration between research and engineering.
• Opportunity to improve continuously learning trading infrastructure at scale.